News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 PrecisionLife to work on R&D with Ono Pharmaceutical PrecisionLife Limited has entered into a multi-target discovery and validation partnership with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The R&D collaboration will leverage PrecisionLife’s combinatorial analytics-generated insights to identify novel therapeutic targets and patient stratification biomarkers in central nervous system (CNS) disorders for development by Ono. PrecisionLife analyzes multi-modal datasets including genomic, clinical, and epidemiological data to […] December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 PhoreMost and ThinkCyte collaborate on AI-based drug discovery PhoreMost Ltd. and ThinkCyte K.K have announced a strategic research partnership aimed at advancing modern phenotypic drug screening using artificial intelligence (AI). The partnership leverages both companies’ technologies in high-throughput drug discovery. These are PhoreMost’s next-generation phenotypic screening platform, SITESEEKER, and ThinkCyte’s AI-driven cell characterization and sorting platform, Ghost Cytometry. The aim is to develop […] December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Asieris doses first patient in bladder cancer diagnostic trial Asieris Pharmaceuticals has announced that Hexvix, a drug used for bladder cancer diagnosis, completed dosing for the first patient in its real-world clinical study at Hainan General Hospital Lecheng Branch. Hexvix has been approved in the U.S. and many European countries. The combined use of Hexvix and blue light cystoscopy (BLC) for the management of […] December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Planning application submitted for Europe’s largest life sciences building Canary Wharf Group (CWG) and Kadans Science Partner are submitting a detailed planning application for a commercial health and life sciences building at Canary Wharf, London. The companies said the 23-story 823,000 sq ft tower will be Europe’s largest and most technologically advanced life sciences facility. Energy efficiency is at the forefront of the building’s […] December 14, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Spanish company launches to produce melanin from enzymes A new Barcelona-based company, OXYCO has been created to produce melanin through biocatalysis. OXYCO uses enzymes to produce biomelanin, which is vegan, soluble and its properties can be adjusted to specific needs. Melanin is traditionally not cheap to produce. The most common way to obtain natural melanin is to extract it from sepia ink or […] December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Tachmed aiming to make healthcare more accessible Tachmed is looking to transform access to healthcare through technology. The company’s CEO, Paul Christie, tells us how. What is the driving force behind Tachmed? What motivated you to work towards transforming digital diagnostics technology? It was during my private equity career that the idea of Tachmed was born. I was with a team running […] December 14, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 OncoHost to launch PROphet for non-small cell lung cancer in the U.S. in 2023 Ofer Sharon is the CEO of OncoHost, a biotech company in the precision oncology space. A physician by training, Sharon has leveraged his experience in pharma drug development and entrepreneurship to lead OncoHost through the development of PROphet, the company’s host response profiling platform, which will launch in the U.S. for non-small cell lung cancer […] December 14, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 14 Dec 2022 Startup USSF bringing oral COVID vaccine to market From a small biotech start-up firm in Allentown, Pennsylvania, two scientists are leading their team to bring an oral COVID-19 vaccine to market – one that will be easier to use, longer lasting and with fewer side effects. Kyle Flanigan and Garry Morefield co-founded US Specialty Formulations LLC (USSF) through discussions while watching their daughters […] December 14, 2022 - 5 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Watch: Interview with Medicon Village CEO Petter Hartman Medicon Village, in Lund, southern Sweden, is part of a cluster of life science research and development, together with actors such as the European Spallation Source (ESS), the BioMedical Centre (BMC) at Lund University and the Max IV Laboratory. Medicon Village is divided into two companies – Medicon Village Fastighets AB and Medicon Village Innovation […] December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Ascletis announces positive COVID-19 trial results Ascletis Pharma Inc. has announced positive topline results from its phase I multiple ascending dose (MAD) study in healthy subjects for oral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) inhibitor ASC10 for COVID-19 treatment. Ascletis’ ASC10 is an innovative orally available double prodrug, which has a new and differentiated chemical structure from the single prodrug molnupiravir. After oral […] December 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Therabest and Glycotope to assess breast cancer combination treatment Therabest USA. Inc, Therabest Korea and Glycotope GmbH have signed an agreement to assess the clinical development of Therabest’s EiNK (enhanced iPSC-derived NK) cell therapy, TB-100, in combination with Glycotope’s immuno-cytokine, GT-00AxIL15 in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients. NK (natural killer) cell therapies from various cell sources have demonstrated exciting results in early clinical trials […] December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email
News and Trends 13 Dec 2022 Blood clotting research holds hope for sepsis Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the U.K., who identified a novel mechanism for platelet activation in pathogenic blood clotting (thrombosis), are now turning their attention to sepsis. Identified by associate professor Julie Rayes and Martina Colicchia from the Birmingham Platelet Group, and described in a recent paper in Blood, this previously unknown axis […] December 13, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall Share WhatsApp Twitter Linkedin Email